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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Visit to a Hostile Planet
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E2

    The Jupiter 2 and all aboard are caught in a space 'time-warp'! After everything seems to return to normal, they're shocked to find Earth within their reach and decide to return home. Though they're perplexed that they are unable to contact 'Alpha-Control', they decide to land in the 'good ole USA' ....only to find it's 1947! As usual, Dr. Smith causes issues & even considers staying behind when the Robinsons and West announce plans to leave.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  2. undefined Season 3 Episode 23 - The Great Vegetable Rebellion
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E23

    Doctor Smith uses the Space Pod to land on a planet that the Jupiter II is passing by. It turns out that the planet has evolved in such a way that plants are the highest form of life, and some of them are quite intelligent. One of these plants, a large carrot, captures Smith and tries to change him into a plant. The Jupiter II lands and the Robinsons and West come to Smith's rescue, only to be captured themselves. Eventually they thwart the plant creature and make their escape.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - The Raft
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E12

    Actually, Will and Dr. Smith went into an elongated orbit and landed right back on the planet, not too far from the Jupiter II.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - The Derelict
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    S1:E2

    The Jupiter 2 is pulled into a giant alien spaceship where there are advanced bubble-like creatures. While John and Don look for maps and equipment Dr Smith and Will look for trouble.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 15 - Return from Outer Space
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    S1:E15

    Lost in Space's only Christmas program. Will uses an alien transporter to send himself back to earth. However, many people believe the Robinson family to be dead after hearing the ship went off course. Nobody on Earth believes him, and they lock him up with the intention of sending him to a boys' home. Will escapes the family home he's in, and wanders around these clueless bunch of townspeople, but finds carbon tetrachoride — needed for the food processors on the Jupiter. Eventually he convinces another boy, Davey, to let him out, and let him return to the planet he came from. He returns to Priplanus with this bottle. Of course no one believes his adventures until he produces the bottle, plainly labeled as coming from Earth.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 19 - Ghost in Space
    6.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E19

    Dr. Smith holds a seance to contact his Uncle Thaddeus. Instead a spirit creature is contacted and creates havoc for the Robinsons. It is later discovered that the ""spirit creature"" is a physical creature, rendered invisible by the properties of the ""ionized gas"" in the bog from which it came.

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  7. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Blast Off into Space
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    S2:E1

    Dr Smith and Will befriend an old miner named Nerim. After a series of earthquakes indicates that the planet is breaking up, Dr Smith tries to convince them that it is merely the effects of mining, and no harm will come to the planet. John informs him that he is wrong and that the Robinson family will be departing within the day. It is a race against time to escape the crumbling planet.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  8. undefined Season 2 Episode 14 - The Dream Monster
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E14

    During a heat wave, Penny comes across a giant, golden man, and his owner. She is told that the creature is called Raddion, a creation which only needs human emotions to be complete. When Dr Smith is removed from the camp, he is taken by two midgets who work with Raddion, and in another atempt to be returned to Earth, agrees to get the emotions from the Robinsons. He does so by taking their pictures, and all that is needed is for the Robinsons to shake hands with him. Don protests and heads back for camp, as do the Robinsons minus their emotions. Eventually they are returned to normal and it is learnt that human emotions cannot be bought or stolen.

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 22 - The Cave of the Wizards
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E22

    Dr. smith hits his head on a rock and goes into the depths of a cave where he finds a mummy, meanwhile the crew have to blast off at 8:00am, and while the also have to rescue Dr. Smith.

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  10. undefined Season 2 Episode 27 - The Phantom Family
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E27

    Will returns to camp following a cosmic storm. John and Maureen are not there as they are at the weather relay station for a few nights. When he gets there, the rest of the family are acting strange. He finds out they are androids, sent to learn how to cope like the Robinsons and teach the rest of their race when they return home. The real Robinsons, are kept in a tube, as they are not allowed to come in to contact with thier double. Will must teach them to become like their counterparts.

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Condemned of Space
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E1

    The beginning of the third season finds the Robinsons having to quickly leave the planet they are on, which is a similar plot to the beginning of the second season. Once in space, the robot is swept overboard and has to be rescued. Then the Robinsons find a prison ship filled with cryogenically preserved prisoners. The prisoners have been interred past their normal sentences due to a malfunctioning timepiece on the prison ship. Professor Robinson repairs the timepiece and frees the prisoners. Robby the Robot makes another appearance, threatening Professor Robinson and Major West.

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - The Space Primevals
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E5

    The primitive beings are actually wards of a computer, Protinius, which can confer temporary advanced sentience on the leading man in order to communicate Protinius' will. The episode also features a temporary camaraderie between Don and Smith, a burying of the hatchet, when Don is rescued by Smith from a pit, and then says ""Doctor Smith"" - using the word Doctor for the first time unknown ages. However, their camaraderie dissolves and the characters are back to ""normal"". Not the first time Smith has become selfless and a man of some integrity, but as usual, Smith returns to normal.

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - Flight into the Future
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E8

    Dr. Smith, Will, and the Robot are accidentally launched in the Space Pod. They land on a planet that is controlled by an alien machine that creates illusions to confuse visitors and drive them away. The Jupiter II lands and rescues them, and the robot destroys the alien machine.

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - Target: Earth
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E16

    The Space Pod lands on a planet that is inhabited by creatures who all look alike, and aspire to be different. They capture the Robinsons and make duplicates of them with the objective of using the duplicates to fly the Jupiter II back to Earth. Will is not duplicated, and he thwarts their plan.

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - The Oasis
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E9

    Dr. Smith eats some alien fruit which transforms him into a giant. Convinced it was the Robinsons trying to kill him, he plots to take them out.

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The Ghost Planet
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    S2:E3

    Due to Smith's actions the crew has had to land there ship on an alien planet which is run by cyborgs. Meanwhile the crew try to break free for the captors who promise them power and luxury and they have to save there robot who was crippled by a ray gun.

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 28 - A Change of Space
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E28

    The Intergalactic Delivery Service comes to Priplanus. Once again Dr. Smith seeks transportation and has Will "test drive" the spaceship. Will returns much smarter than when he left. Smith realizing the same could happen to him, the increase of intellect, boards the spaceship. His trip, however, ends in his rapid aging and subsequent impending death. To make matters worse, the owner of the spaceship has returned to take the vehicle back, stranding Will and Dr. Smith in their altered state.

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Welcome Stranger
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    S1:E6

    Jimmy Hapgood lands on the planet and the Robinsons befriend him. After helping him fix his spaceship the Robinsons try to convince him to take Will and Penny back to Earth with him. Dr. Smith tries to get aboard the ship instead and take their place.

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  19. undefined Season 5 Episode 2 - A Passion for Justice
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S5:E2

    Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 25 - The Space Croppers
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E25

    The Beverly Hillbillies move to Priplanis. One of the aliens turns into a werewolf at night. The leader is a articulent female which Smith tries to court so he may have transportation back to earth. Don falls for the sexy alien daughter.

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 25 - The Colonists
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E25

    The Robinson's communications system is knowcked out, and they discover that the culprit is a female warrior, who is planing on making this planet a colony for her people. She encaptures the members of the Robinson camp, and puts the men to work clearing a landing platform and erecting an arc. Meanwhile she keeps the females seperate and teaches them of the virtues of females, and the vices of males. Dr Smith becomes her escort to get out of work. Just before her colonists arrive, John, Will, Don and Dr Smith destroy the arc, and the colonists leave. It ends with Noble Neolani questioningthe value of men, and perhaps they weren't as bad or stupid as she thought.

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 14 - Castles in Space
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E14

    The Robinsons take in a Princess who is fleeing from a bounty hunter. Will is captured by the bounty hunter, who wants to trade the boy for the princess. the robot then comes up with a idea to save the day.

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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 19 - The Promised Planet
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E19

    The Robot suddenly announces that the Jupiter II is approaching Alpha Centauri. Everyone is suprised, and the ship lands on a planet, where they are greeted by a group of people who appear to be teenagers from Earth. It turns out that they are aliens who live like Earth-style hippies, and they are incapable of growing old. They want to age normally, and to do this they want to get the older members of the Robinson party to leave in the Jupiter II while the younger members can stay behind and be used in an experiment that will make it possible for them to do so. The aliens trick the older members of the Robinson party into leaving, but Will pulls a fast one on the aliens and the Jupiter II eventually returns to the planet, and Penny, Will, and Dr. Smith, who somehow passed himself off as a young person, are rescued.

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  24. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - Mutiny in Space
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E19

    Dr. Smith's finds an alien ship and wants to use it to get back to earth, but he doesn't count for the owner of the ship admiral zahik to turn up and wreck his plans.

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    Writer:Peter Packer

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  25. undefined Season 2 Episode 16 - The Girl From the Green Dimension
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E16

    Athena the girl from the green dimension who hypnotised Dr Smith during thier space flight arrives on the planet. She still is in love with Dr Smith, which he uses to bribe her to help him see the future. However, he promises to go back to the green dimension with him, and when Athena's previous suitor arrives and turns Will green, Dr Smith must find a way to save himself and Will. Urso, Athena's suitor challenges Dr Smith for the lady, customary in the Green Dimension, and after seeing the future, Dr Smith fears the worst. Athena realises he cannot be with her, and leaves with Urso, but not before Urso restores Will's colour.

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Peter Packer Ratings Summary

"Visit to a Hostile Planet" is the best rated episode written by Peter Packer. It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 9/13/1967 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Great Vegetable Rebellion".